Microwave tomography in the context of complex breast cancer imaging

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3398-3401

  Meaney, Paul M ^a   Fanning, Margaret W ^a   Di Florio Alexander, Roberta M ^b   Kaufman, Peter A ^a   Geimer, Shireen D ^a   Zhou, Tian ^c   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER IMAGING; CANCER PATIENTS; CLINICAL USE; COMPLEX NATURE; MALIGNANT TISSUES; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS; TUMOR PROGRESSIONS; TUMOR SITE;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

MICROWAVES;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650831174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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